Hardware Collection
One of my hobbies is collecting interesting hardware. Below is an inventory of the machines I've accumulated over the years.
Some items have their own subpage with pictures and more information about them (in most cases also including pictures of the boards inside). Most subpages also contain manuals, drivers, and other useful files.
Click on an item's name to visit its subpage, or on its picture in the first column to go directly to the picture gallery section of the subpage.
| Manufacturer | Item | Year | Description | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | SGI | O2 | 1999 | 300MHz MIPS RM5271, 1GB RAM, A/V module, O2cam |
 | SGI | Octane | 1999 | 2x 400MHz MIPS R12000, 2GB RAM, MXE+SE graphics |
 | SGI | Origin 3400 | 2000 | 32 CPUs (24x 500MHz MIPS R14000 + 8x 400MHz MIPS R12000), 32GB RAM |
| SGI | Tezro (rackmount) | 2006 | 4x 1GHz MIPS R16000A, 16GB RAM, V12 graphics w/ dual-channel display (DCD) option | |
| SGI | Fuel | 2002 | 600MHz MIPS R14000, 2GB RAM, V10 graphics | |
 | SGI | Indy | 1994 | 100MHz MIPS R4600PC, 32MB RAM, 8-bit XL graphics |
 | SGI | Indigo | 1991 | 100MHz MIPS R4000, ?MB RAM, LG1 graphics, SRV1 video |
 | SGI | Indigo | 1991 | 33MHz MIPS R3000, 8MB RAM, LG1 graphics, Stoll Selectanit Selan interface unit |
 | SGI | Dials & Buttons | 1990 | Input device consisting of 8 dials and 32 buttons. |
| SGI | Altix XE340 | 2009 | 4x Intel X5570 2.93GHz (16 cores total), 96GB RAM, Infiniband | |
 | Symmetricom | SyncServer S300 | 2013 | Stratum-1 NTP server with GPS input and rubidium oscillator |
 | HP | 9830A | 1973 | Desktop calculator with BASIC, HP2116-based 16-bit serial CPU, 7904 words of RAM, 9866A line printer, 59405A HP-IB interface, 9862A plotter interface (+ plotter), 9865A cassette tape drive interface (+ drive), additional ROM modules: Advanced Prog I & II, String Variables, Plotter Control, Extended I/O, Matrix Operations. |
| HP | 2645A | 1978 | Intel 8080A-based RS-232 serial terminal with 5kB of memory | |
 | HP | 9826A | 1984 | 25MHz Motorola 68020/68882 accelerator card (originally an 8MHz Motorola 68000), 4MB RAM, ROM BASIC 5.1 card, DMA card, RS232 card, GPIO card |
| HP | Integral PC (9807A) | 1985 | 8MHz Motorola 68000, 768kB RAM, HP/UX 5.0 + HP Technical BASIC 5.0 in ROM, RS232 card, HP-HIL keyboard and mouse | |
| HP | 9000/310 (98561A) | 1985 | 10MHz Motorola 68010, 1MB RAM, ADC card, 46021A HP-HIL keyboard | |
| HP | 9133XV | 1983 | HP-IB 14.5MB hard drive + 3.5-inch single-sided floppy drive, AMIGO command set | |
| HP | 5061A | 1980 | Cesium Beam Frequency Standard (atomic clock) with high-performance cesium tube (option 004), digital clock display (option 001), and HP 10638A degausser. | |
 | HP | 59309A | 1974 | HP-IB digital clock |
| HP | 8594E | 1997 | 9kHz-2.9GHz spectrum analyzer with options 004 (OCXO), 041 (HPIB + parallel ports), 101 (fast ADC), 102 (AM/FM demodulator), 130 (narrow resolution bandwidths) | |
| Agilent | 54622D | 2000 | 2-channel 100MHz 200MSa/s MegaZoom mixed-signal digital oscilloscope with N2757A GPIB interface and a pair of N2862A probes | |
| HP | 54542C | 1996 | 4-channel 500MHz 2GSa/s color digital oscilloscope | |
| HP | 1672G | 1999 | 68-channel (500MHz timing, 150MHz state) logic analyzer with 2-channel oscilloscope (500MHz 2GSa/s) | |
| HP | 1602A | 1978 | 16-channel 10MHz logic state analyzer with 64-word memory | |
| HP | 4145A | 1986 | Semiconductor parameter analyzer (four 100V/100mA SMUs) | |
| HP | 4274A | 1985 | Multi-frequency LCR meter (100Hz-100kHz, 0.1% accuracy) with HPIB and option 001 (internal DC bias: 0 to +/-35V in 1mV increments) | |
 | HP | 3325A | 1977 | 1uHz to 21MHz synthesizer/function generator (11-digit resolution) with options 1 and 2 (high-stability oscillator and high-voltage output) and HPIB |
| HP | 8648B | 1996 | 9kHz-2GHz signal generator with options 1EA (high-power output) and 1E5 (high-stability timebase) | |
| HP | 3314A | 1987 | 20MHz function generator with HPIB | |
| HP | 3455A | 1976 | 6.5-digit digital multimeter with HPIB and self-calibration | |
| HP | 3456A | 1988 | 6.5-digit digital multimeter with HPIB | |
| HP | 3438A | 1977 | 3.5-digit digital multimeter with HPIB | |
| HP | 3421A | 1983 | 5.5-digit digital multimeter with HP-IL and HP-IB interfaces | |
| HP | 3467A | 1978 | 4.5-digit 4-channel logging multimeter with built-in thermal printer | |
| HP | 5342A | 1984 | Microwave frequency counter (10Hz to 21GHz) with options 003 (extended dynamic range) and 011 (HP-IB). | |
 | HP | 5335A | 1989 | 200MHz universal counter (12-digit) with HPIB and options 010 and 040 (high-stability oscillator and expanded HP-IB control) |
 | HP | 5316B | 1989 | 100MHz universal counter (7-digit) with HPIB and TCXO option (temperature-compensated crystal oscillator, for higher stability) |
| HP | 5316B | 1989 | 100MHz universal counter (7-digit) with HPIB | |
| HP | 438A | 1987 | RF power meter with 8482A power sensor (100kHz-4.2GHz) | |
 | HP | 59303A | 1976 | HP-IB digital to analog converter |
 | HP | 59304A | 1976 | HP-IB 12-digit numeric display |
 | HP | 59306A | 1973 | HP-IB relay actuator |
 | HP | 59307A | 1973 | HP-IB VHF switch |
 | HP | 59313A | 1979 | HP-IB 4-channel analog to digital converter |
 | HP | 59401A | 1985 | HP-IB bus system analyzer |
 | HP | 37201A | 1982 | HP-IB extender |
| HP | 6114A | 1984 | 0-20V 2A or 20-40V 1A precision power supply | |
| HP | 6227B | 1971 | Dual 0-25V 0-2A DC power supply | |
| HP | 6228B | 1977 | Dual 0-50V 0-1A DC power supply | |
| HP | 6632B | 1997 | 0-20V 0-5A system DC power supply | |
| HP | 6002A | 1984 | 0-50V 0-10A (200W max) DC power supply with HPIB | |
| HP | 5150A | 1981 | HP-IB thermal printer with clock and BCD interface | |
 | HP | 7475A | 1983 | 6-pen A3/A4 graphics plotter (HPGL, RS232) |
| HP | ColorPro (7440A) | 1985 | 8-pen A4 graphics plotter (HPGL, HP-IB) | |
| HP | 1335A | 1979 | Variable persistence X-Y display | |
| HP | 2671G | 1984 | HP-IB thermal printer with raster graphics support | |
 | HP | 9111A | 1981 | HP-IB graphics tablet (digitizer) |
 | HP | 75C | 1983 | Hand-held BASIC computer, 16kB RAM + 8kB 82700A RAM expansion pack, HP-IL interface, magnetic card reader, ROM modules: I/O, Math, VisiCalc |
 | HP | 75D | 1986 | Hand-held BASIC computer, 16kB RAM + 8kB 82700A RAM expansion pack, HP-IL interface, magnetic card reader, 82718A pod w/ 64kB storage and modem |
 | HP | 82161A | 1983 | HP-IL mini data cassette drive |
 | HP | 82162A | 1984 | HP-IL thermal printer |
 | HP | 82163A | 1982 | HP-IL video interface (composite video and RF output) |
 | HP | 82164A | 1984 | HP-IL to RS-232 interface |
 | HP | 82169A | 1984 | HP-IL to HP-IB interface |
| HP | 82713A | 1983 | HP-75 plug-in module simulator | |
| Mountain Computer Inc. | MC00701A | 1983 | HP-IL 80-column video interface | |
 | HP | 200LX | 1994 | 7.91MHz Intel 80186-based SoC, 2MB RAM, 32MB CF card |
 | HP | 48SX | 1989 | Programmable RPN graphing calculator |
| HP | 48GX | 1993 | Programmable RPN graphing calculator | |
 | HP | 32S | 1989 | Programmable RPN calculator |
 | HP | 32S-II | 1992 | Programmable RPN calculator |
 | HP | 16C | 1984 | Programmable RPN calculator |
| HP | 35S | 2007 | Programmable RPN calculator | |
| HP | 49G | 1999 | Programmable RPN graphing calculator | |
| HP | Mini 2140 | 2009 | 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270, 2GB RAM | |
 | Data General | Walkabout (G2750) | 1989 | Portable RS232 terminal with built-in modem |
| Электроника | МК-52 | 1983 | Programmable RPN calculator w/ non-volatile storage | |
 | Электроника | Б3-34 | 1980 | Programmable RPN calculator |
| Электроника | МК-90 | 1990 | Handheld PDP11-based computer with BASIC and 120x64-pixel graphical LCD. | |
 | Электроника | БК 0010-01 | 1990 | PDP11-based home computer with BASIC, 3MHz К1801ВМ1 CPU (LSI-11 compatible), 32kB RAM |
| Электроника | УКНЦ (МС-0511) | 1990 | PDP11-based home computer with dual К1801ВМ2 CPUs (LSI-11 compatible), primary CPU runs at 8MHz and has 64kB of RAM, peripheral CPU at 6.25MHz and has 32kB of RAM and 96kB of video RAM | |
 | DEC | MicroVAX 3100 Model 20 | 1987 | |
| Sun | SPARCstation 20 | 1995 | 2x 50MHz SuperSPARC SM50, 384MB RAM | |
| Atari | 1040STF | 1986 | 8MHz Motorola 68000, 1MB RAM | |
| Apple | Mac Plus | 1986 | 8MHz Motorola 68000, 1MB RAM | |
| Apple | PowerBook 520c | 1994 | 25MHz Motorola 68LC040, 36MB RAM | |
| Apple | PowerBook G3/233 (PDQ) | 1998 | 233MHz PowerPC G3, 512MB RAM | |
| Apple | Newton MessagePad 120 | 1994 | 20MHz ARM 610, 1MB RAM, NewtonOS 1.3 | |
| Apple | Newton MessagePad 2000 (upgraded) | 1997 | 162MHz StrongARM SA-110, 4MB RAM, NewtonOS 2.1 | |
| Apple | Newton eMate 300 | 1997 | 27MHz ARM 710a, 1MB RAM, NewtonOS 2.1 | |
| Agenda | VR3 | 2001 | 66MHz NEC VR4181, 8MB RAM | |
| Apple | Mac Mini G4/1.42 | 2005 | 1.42GHz PowerPC 7447A, 1GB RAM | |
| Apple | PowerMac G4 (Sawtooth) | 1999 | 450MHz PowerPC 7400 (overclocked from 400MHz), 2GB RAM | |
| Apple | 12" iBook G4 | 2005 | 1.33GHz PowerPC 7447A, 1.5GB RAM | |
| Apple | 20" iMac G5 | 2004 | 1.8GHz PowerPC 970, 2GB RAM | |
| Apple | 13" MacBook Air | 2012 | 1.7GHz Intel i7-4650U, 8GB RAM, 128GB SSD | |
 | Telequipment | D83 | 1976 | Dual-channel 50MHz analog oscilloscope |
 | Kikusui | Model 455 | 0 | 100kHz function generator |
| Tektronix | 3001GPX | 1992 | 80-channel logic analyzer (200MHz timing + 80MHz state, or 1GHz timing when using only 16 channels) | |
| APC | Smart-UPS 3000 | 2000 | 3000VA UPS, 230V output, RS232 | |
| APC | Smart-UPS 1500 | 1999 | 1500VA UPS, 230V output, RS232 | |
| APC | Smart-UPS 700 | 1999 | 700VA UPS, 230V output, RS232 | |
| APC | SU043 Redundant Switch | 2002 | 1400VA Automatic Transfer Switch | |
| Broadcom | BCM91250A | 2003 | BCM1250 development board (dual-core 500MHz MIPS64 SiByte-1 processor); I have four of these boards, all have the rare Pass 1 CPU with lots of bugs. | |
 | IDT | 79S334A | 2001 | 79RC32334 development board (150MHz MIPS-II SoC) |
| element14 | Raspberry Pi 4 Model B | 2022 | 1.5GHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 SoC, 8GB RAM | |
 | element14 | Raspberry Pi 2 Model B | 2015 | 900MHz quad-core Broadcom BCM2836 ARM7 SoC, 1GB RAM |
 | element14 | BeagleBone Black (Industrial) | 2015 | 1GHz quad-core TI AM3358 ARM7 SoC, 512MB RAM |
 | Xunlong | Orange Pi Lite | 2016 | 1.2GHz quad-core AllWinner H3 ARM7 SoC, 512MB RAM |
| Waveshare | VisionFive2 | 2023 | 1.5GHz quad-core StarFive JH7110 RISC-V SoC, 8GB RAM | |
| Xerox | Phaser 6510DN | 2017 | Color laser printer w/ networking and duplex unit | |
 | Leitch | DPS-575 | 2001 | Digital processing synchronizer (I use it as a fancy time-base corrector) |
 | Thinklogical | Velocitykvm-8 | 2011 | Multi-mode fiber KVM extension system (receiver + transmitter) |
| BG7TBL | GPS Disciplined Oscillator (2017-12-16) | 2017 | A pretty good 10MHz GPSDO (a very precise ovenized oscillator that's synchronized with the GPS network for long-term stability and precision) | |
| SYSJOINT | NanoVNA-F V2 | 2021 | Handheld vector network analyzer (50kHz-3GHz) | |
| Erik Kaashoek | TinySA V0.3 | 2020 | Handheld spectrum analyzer (0.1MHz-960MHz) | |
| Cobalt | Qube2 | 2000 | 250MHz QED RM5231, 32MB RAM |